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Unclassified road crash in Derby DE21 on 18 October 1979 at 15:15 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Derby at 15:15 on Thursday 18 October 1979. A female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Oct 1979
Thursday, 15:15
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93453, longitude -1.45096, in the DE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979309D02852
Council area
Derby
Police force
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Seated passenger

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1979309D02852 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derby road accident statistics for 1979.